Mr. Scott Pettipas

A native of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Scott Pettipas has become a self-taught, award-winning guitarist. Scott did not begin playing guitar until after graduating from high school when he taught himself to play by ear on a twelve-string guitar. Soon his creativity blossomed forth and he began spending up to 14 hours a day practicing, learning guitar theory and perfecting advanced pieces. Influenced by great guitarists as Chuck Berry and John Fogerty, Scott transitioned to electric guitar in the late 1990s and expanded his acoustic songwriter genre to include traditional East Coast music to electric blues. Honing his skills further, Scott learned opening/alternate tuning and how to arrange and play both rhythm and melody on a single guitar. In 2002, while in the Canadian Armed Forces, Scott began playing classical guitar and began arranging more complex pieces. Scott Pettipas has recorded two instrumental albums Scott Pettipas (2010) and Melodic Twilight (2012) which won "Instrumental Album of the Year" at the 2013 Canadian Gospel Music Awards. Two of his songs have won "Honorable Mention" at the Indie International Songwriting Contest - Meandering Through Marseille in 2012 and Winterspell in 2014. In 2017 two other songs of Scott's were selected as finalists for the Hollywood Songwriting Contest - Ohio 1930 and Freedom Summer. Scott Pettipas currently lives in Calgary, Alberta with his wife and daughter.